The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters.

It appears Michael Dobbs did not envisage writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel.

Category: Novels by Michael Dobbs

Described as " the most eclectic and unpredictable of the literary world's annual gongs ", Michelle Pauli posed the question in relation to the longlist for the 2004 edition: " Where would you find Michael Dobbs and Tony Parsons up against Umberto Eco and Milan Kundera for a € 100, 000 prize?

Halifax is also a significant character in Michael Dobbs ' novels Winston's War and Never Surrender.

* In 2009, Michael Dobbs wrote a short play, " Turning Point ," for a series of live broadcast TV plays on Sky Arts channel.

* Michael Abrash's article from Dr. Dobbs Journal

The Bridport Literary Festival has been running since 2005 and has played host to the biggest literary lions including Elizabeth Jane Howard, Victoria Glendinning, Claire Tomalin, Jonathan Dimbleby, Max Hastings, Julian Fellowes, Alexander Waugh, John Julius Norwich, Minette Walters, Fay Weldon, Bill Oddie, Robin Hanbury – Tenison, Katharine Whitehorn, Kate Summerscale, Michael Dobbs and Ann Leslie DBE.

Michael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs ( born 14 November 1948 ) is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author.

Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the son of nurseryman Eric and Eileen Dobbs.

Michael Dobbs is most recognised as a best-selling author.

* Official web site of Michael Dobbs

Once again, Manuel began benching him, using Greg Dobbs, Jayson Werth, or Michael Bourn in left field.

* Michael Dobbs, writer and politician

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

* The Turning Point by Michael Dobbs, a novel that explores a little-known 1938 meeting between Burgess and Winston Churchill.

The theory has since been attacked by various authors and journalists, including Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, who initially believed the story.

* Reprint: Josef Korbel's Enduring Foreign Policy Legacy, Michael Dobbs, Washington Post December 28, 2000

" Created September 2007 by Post diplomatic writer Michael Dobbs specifically for the 2008 presidential campaign.

* Never Surrender ( novel ), a 2004 novel by Michael Dobbs

" In One Minute to Midnight on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Michael Dobbs notes the deep impression Guns had on Kennedy.

In 1996, the Washington Post wrote, “ The Kosovo cause has been kept alive in Washington by a small group of congressmen led by Rep. Eliot L. Engel ( D-N. Y .)....” ( Dobbs, Michael, “ Kosovo ’ s Albanians Look to U. S. for Help ; American Office Opened in Serb-Ruled Region ,” The Washington Post, July 21, 1996 ).

* Atlas is a nickname for Michael Marra, a Scottish musician ( born 1952 )

Achill is attached to the mainland by Michael Davitt Bridge, between the villages of Gob an Choire ( Achill Sound ) and Poll Raithní ( Polranny ).

* 1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva.

* Absalom is the name of a character in Michael Crummey's Newfoundland-set Galore.

* 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

* 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested.

Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).

This account, supported by biologist E. O. Wilson and philosopher Michael Ruse, proposes that the human experience of morality is a by-product of natural selection, a theory philosopher Mark D. Linville calls evolutionary naturalism.

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

Notable in this area is Michael Leyton, professor of psychology at Rutgers University.

A musical child, he sang in the boys ' choir at the Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn.

His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon.

Michael Meyer argues that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather " the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person.

One way of reducing the risk is through the illegal use of inside information, and in fact risk arbitrage with regard to leveraged buyouts was associated with some of the famous financial scandals of the 1980s such as those involving Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

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